Who here was watching during this era???

[RawDawgHasSpokn]

I was too young to to appreciate all the fights I was present at and watched as a kid. My pops went to school with Kenny Leonard and his fight parties were legendary. I wouldn't say boxing totally sucks but the sport itself has changed in a bad way.

[Kenny Blankenship]

Now THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN MY ERA...this is NETWORK TV covering the biggest fights every single weekend...Cosell, Tim Ryan, Gil Clancy, etc etc...In the grand scheme of things today, COMPARITIVELY, boxing SUCKS today ...a lot big fights back then were be on ABC/CBS/NBC on a Saturday at 1 or 4 pm...you saw Arguello-Mancini....you saw guys like Hearns, Duran, Leonard, Hagler, Pryor for FREE back then......you saw Curry-Starling, Leonard-Benitez, etc. during the day on free TV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...eLDVd9W0#at=12

Yes, ABC's Wide World Of Sports had big fights. CBS had some great fights as well.

I was born in '72 and was watching back then. It was so different than it is now. People nowadays take things for granted. It's so easy to just turn on laptop and watch a PPV for free. It was so different back then. No cell phones, no laptops, computers didn't have video cards so no video on a computer, just graphics. tv had something like 25 channels not 500 LOL.

If it wasn't on regular tv it was closed circuit. Pay some cash to go to your local arena and watch the fights on a screen.

[CubanGuyNYC]

I was watching during this era, its why I am a fan today. Hagler-Minter, Mancini-DU koo Kim, Little Red Lopez, Hard Rock Green, Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Matthew saad muhammad, Livingstone Bramble etc. etc.

FWIW this is why the ESPN PTI guys say boxing is dead. Boxing used to be bigger than most sports. WHen wide world of sports was popping they'd have great fights on.

I feel bad for today's fans who have to pay for espn, hbo, sho, epix etc etc just to see average fights.

Wide World of Sports, "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." lol On the rare occasions I think of that show, I always envision that skier wiping out like a helicopter.

I remember once happening upon a broadcast of Hagler-Antuofermo I, a middleweight championship bout. It wasn't anything I had heard about, read about, or had been looking forward to. It just happened to be on TV. What a fight. Everyone was to know who Marvin was from then on. Today, you'd very likely have to pay 70 bucks to "bump into" a fight like that.

[The Big Dunn]

Wide World of Sports, "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." lol On the rare occasions I think of that show, I always envision that skier wiping out like a helicopter.

I remember once happening upon a broadcast of Hagler-Antuofermo I, a middleweight championship bout. It wasn't anything I had heard about, read about, or had been looking forward to. It just happened to be on TV. What a fight. Everyone was to know who Marvin was from then on. Today, you'd very likely have to pay 70 bucks to "bump into" a fight like that.

Main reason I'm a Haglr fan. I stumbled across that fight oo and thought-damn they cheated for vito Hagler won.

Or when Herans KO'd Pipino Cuevas? that was an afternoon fight on CBS.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Main reason I'm a Haglr fan. I stumbled across that fight oo and thought-damn they cheated for vito Hagler won.

Or when Herans KO'd Pipino Cuevas? that was an afternoon fight on CBS.

I remember that KO as well. Funny, the way my memory works nowadays, I don't recall some things until someone else brings them up. There were just so many fights back then. In retrospect, it was a boxing fans dream; but it was just normal to us. How many classic fights didn't we just happen to come across? I remember watching Holifield derail Dokes's comeback, and Evander go to war with Qawi. So many fights...

[soul_survivor]

Born in 89, I started boxing early, both taking part and watching. Don't know what my first fight was but as a kid grew up watching DLH, Tito, RJJ, Hopkins, Tyson, Holy, Lewis and so on. And watched the rise of the likes of Pacquiao, Floyd, Hatton and Calzaghe.

[major handz]

I listened to Trinidad vs mayorga and jones vs tarver 1 via yahoo audio chat that was my prime .. It's a story I still laugh about but I'm still relatively young I remeber listening ton those two metioned in a yahoo chat room
With some one leaving there microphone near a tv. I'm born. I 86 but we were too poor for hbo and stuff until like 01 lol but i did catch the vEnron vs Shane's , gatti wards and stuff live

[SBleeder]

you mean on video?

Live, on video, didn't matter to me.

[Reloaded]

One of my best boxing memories was in Australia going to see Joe Frazier vs Jimmy Ellis in 1975 , the fight was good but I got to meet and have a good chat with the referee former LH great Bob Foster , it was a great day .

When we talk about eras and the good old days , I look at it that these days will one day be somebody's good ol days , history just keeps repeating itself and as we age our youth becomes the good ol days , then over time human nature forms that the old days were more grandiose than what they really were , when young we are way more impressionable than when we age and those feelings we had felt for the first time are not repeated easily and so become larger than life , Ive followed the sport for over 40 yrs and the only difference I see is that today it seems more plastic and commercial , but overall the boxing is better today with much more accessibility to see it .

[Craveman]

I've only started to watch boxing few years ago. You have to rub it in...